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\n\tAs anyone who remembers MTV\u2019s The Osbournes<\/em> can attest, Ozzy Osbourne, who died Tuesday at 76, had a way with words. It didn\u2019t matter if he was walking offstage after playing to 50,000 fans or sitting at his house struggling to work the TV remote, the metal pioneer always managed to come up with a turn of phrase that was both hilarious and unexpectedly wise. That\u2019s why the family rejected an early idea to have The Osbournes<\/em> be a scripted sitcom as opposed to a reality show.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYou know what I think we should do?\u201d a teenage Jack Osbourne told his father in 2000, as Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Erik Hedegaard looked on. \u201cWe should have a crew come out to the house for a weekend and see how we really act. It\u2019d be like The Real World<\/em> but with us.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOh, that would be a fucking thing,\u201d Ozzy said back. \u201cGood idea, Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIt was a very, very good idea that forever changed all their lives. But the MTV cameras captured only a handful of the pearls of wisdom that Ozzy has offered over the years. Here are 17 great lines from the brilliant mind of John Michael \u201cOzzy\u201d Osbourne.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe thing about life that gets me crazy is that by the time you learn it all, it\u2019s too late to deal with it. It should be the other way around. We should be born with all this sense and knowledge, and then get stupider as we get older.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m just Dad. It\u2019s kind of a fucked-up life, really. A rock star is supposed to say, \u2018Get me the Vicodins!\u2019 Or, \u2018Run me a bath in fucking Perrier water!\u2019 I get fucking dog shit up to the elbows and an earful of fucking abuse.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cViagra\u2019s a great sleeping drug. I take Viagra, and Sharon goes right to sleep.\u201d (Via Guitar World<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that\u2019s OK \u2013 the bat had to get Ozzy shots.\u201d (Via The Guardian<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSometimes I\u2019m scared of being Ozzy. But it could have been worse; I could have been Sting.\u201d (Via YouTube<\/em>)<\/p>\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\t\u201cBeing sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.\u201d (Via Birmingham World<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI love a good old kip \u2014 an afternoon nap \u2014 it\u2019s the best thing in the world. Whether you call it escaping reality or what, it\u2019s fucking great. At least you wake up with your head still on your shoulders, and you haven\u2019t fucked somebody else\u2019s wife.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSteve Jones of the Sex Pistols once said to me, \u2018I hated the Beatles.\u2019 To me, that\u2019s like saying you hate air.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m the flavor of the month. I know I\u2019m this year\u2019s version of Roseanne Barr. I know the bubble will burst, and I\u2019m going to be yesterday\u2019s news. But I\u2019m not letting any of this get in the way of my music. I can still rock like a son of a bitch.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOne minute, we were a rock band doing coke. The next, we were a coke band doing rock.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMy son, Jack, gets pissed off sometimes. He said to me one day, \u2018Dad, the difference is whether people are laughing with you or at you.\u2019 I said, \u2018As long as they\u2019re laughing, it doesn\u2019t matter.’\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBut if I feel this show is fucking my family up \u2014 if I find my son freebasing \u2014 I will say, \u2018You can kiss my ass. I don\u2019t want to have a TV show and bury two kids at the end of it.\u2019 The most important thing for me is the love I have for my family. I love them more than life itself.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\t\u201cRandy [Rhoads] was too young and too nice a guy to die. It\u2019s always the assholes in the world who live to 199.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI guarantee that if I was to die tonight, tomorrow it would be, \u2018Ozzy Osbourne, the man who bit the head off a bat, died in his hotel room\u2026\u2019 I know that\u2019s coming. But I\u2019ve got no complaints. At least I\u2019ll be remembered.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI hate vacuum cleaners. They make the most nauseating fucking racket in the world, like a dying wildebeest being dragged up and down the corridor.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\t\u201cWe couldn\u2019t conjure up a fart. We\u2019d get invitations to play witches\u2019 conventions and black masses in Highgate Cemetery. I honestly thought it was a joke. We were the last hippie band \u2014 we were into peace.\u201d (Via Rolling Stone<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m not in the band anymore because of musical differences. They were musical. I was different.\u201d (Via Rockportraits<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As anyone who remembers MTV\u2019s The Osbournes can attest, Ozzy Osbourne, who died Tuesday at 76, had a way with words. 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